CHAPTER I
PISKARET THE ADIRONDACK CHAMPION (1644)
HOW HE SCOUTED AGAINST THE IROQUOIS
It was in early spring, about the year 1644, that the warrior Piskaret of the Adirondack tribe of the Algonkins set forth alone from the island Allumette in the Ottawa River, Canada, to seek his enemies the Iroquois.
For there long had been bitter, bitter war between the vengeful Algonkins[] and the cruel Hurons on the one side, and the proud, even crueler...
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